unpleasantness

unpleasant | American Dictionary

unpleasant
adjective
us/ʌnˈplez·ənt/
not attractive or enjoyable or easy to like:
an unpleasant surprise
unpleasant memories
an unpleasant young man

unpleasantly

adverbus/ʌnˈplez·ənt·li/
Rob chuckled unpleasantly.

Examples of unpleasant

unpleasant
She enjoyed speaking of her past but made it plain that she did not like to recall unpleasant memories.
At the same time, first-party privilege is provisionally accommodated and intimate harmony is protected in the face of such an unpleasant revelation.
This vision is not just an outrageous fantasy, in which anxieties about performers' real power have given rise to unpleasant falsifications.
Despite numerous ethical criticisms of this study, numerous follow up studies have forced an unpleasant awareness of our capacity for brutish behavior.
It can also create an unpleasant rehearsal environment, in which the performer's mechanical perfection is needed to achieve the goal of accurate following.
And, most important for our purposes, he minimized episodes remembered in the oral tradition that might have been unpleasant for the royal family.
Pain is described as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.
Incontinence and erosion of the intact body are so unpleasant that they are rarely addressed publicly.
The unpleasant voice is found to suffer from pressed phonation, lack of a singer's formant, irregular vibrato and insufficient pitch accuracy.
While insults can be more unpleasant than injuries, the capacity to trade gibes does not imply debilitating pain.
However, the involvement of older carers in the more unpleasant aspects of nursing care, involving blood, waste products or bodily fluids, is never questioned.
Thus, people who are more troubled and who have mental health problems tend to have more unpleasant and negative dreams.
But when pain is absent or minimal, we might also represent an unpleasant reminder of a bad time.
This results in euphemisms, since an existing word may be avoided because it gives a misleading or unpleasant impression.
An unpleasant happening is not an 'incident' but an incidence while a decision does not set a bad 'precedent' but a bad precedence.
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